A Flexible PVC pipe union. Bill Bowin, CSRE/CBNT, chief engineer at North American Broadcasting, writes that we’ve “beaten to death’” the topic of condensate drains over the last six months, but Bill ...

NEW: A Uni-Bell PVC Pipe Association official has a rebuttal to the Beyond Plastics report covered in this story. Read the detailed update here. Bennington, Vt.-based Beyond Plastics, a nonprofit ...

PVC pipe is one of the most common and popular options for providing communities and homes with clean, safe drinking water.

BOSTON (CBS) - Union plumbers say it's not just the dust from cutting PVC pipe that makes installing it so dangerous. Joe King is a plumbing instructor for the union. He tells the I-Team, "It's the ...

Plastics News isn't the sort of publication with stories that go viral. But we do, occasionally, cover news that nonplastics readers find interesting — even years after they appear in print. That's ...

I spotted this broken PVC conduit at a pier in South Carolina. The cable inside the conduit is UF cable, so at least it is permitted by Sec. 555.13(A)(1) to be used in a wet location. Section 340.10(3 ...

BOSTON (WHDH) - The deadly gas disaster two months ago has many people wondering, could there be more pipe problems across Massachusetts? 7News put our state’s natural gas lines under the microscope.

BENTONVILLE -- Much of the 9 miles of pipe between the regional wastewater plant and the city needs to be repaired or replaced less than a decade after being installed. The estimated cost to fix the ...

North Texas plumbers are bracing for a flood of problems when frozen pipes thaw. Many residents reported slow-running faucets in this cold weather. “We have gotten plenty of calls,” said Joseph ...